On Jan 10, 2006, at 4:34 PM, <Augusto.Sanabria at ga.gov.au>
<Augusto.Sanabria at ga.gov.au> wrote:
> I am new in R programming (my question may sound trivial to you):
> is there any way to ask the user to enter a string within an R
> process, say a filename, make R to recognise it and open the given
> file?
Sure, for reading you can use readLines. I have no idea what you mean
by "recognise", but let's say if you wanted to use read.table, it
would be
read.table(readLines(n=1))
Of course, in R there is an even more convenient method far that ;)
read.table(file.choose())
Cheers,
Simon